{"id":22645,"date":"2013-10-23T09:45:46","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22645"},"modified":"2013-10-23T09:45:46","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T14:45:46","slug":"the-most-dangerous-shipwreck-in-the-thames-estuary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/23\/the-most-dangerous-shipwreck-in-the-thames-estuary\/","title":{"rendered":"The most dangerous shipwreck in the Thames Estuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"640\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r9UePXNdqlQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Uploaded on 16 Aug 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A documentary about the <em>SS Richard Montgomery<\/em>. The remains of this second world war Liberty ship lie semi-submerged in the Thames estuary. There are currently over 1500 tons of explosives left on board. This documentary looks into the danger the wreck still presents.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m mildly amused that they frequently mis-name the vessel as the &#8220;USS&#8221; <em>Richard Montgomery<\/em> (she was never a commissioned ship of the US Navy, so it should be just &#8220;SS&#8221; not &#8220;USS&#8221;). If you watch to the end of the documentary, they&#8217;ve included a &#8220;blooper reel&#8221; of voice-overs for the last minute or so&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uploaded on 16 Aug 2010 A documentary about the SS Richard Montgomery. The remains of this second world war Liberty ship lie semi-submerged in the Thames estuary. There are currently over 1500 tons of explosives left on board. This documentary looks into the danger the wreck still presents. I&#8217;m mildly amused that they frequently mis-name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,230],"tags":[61,365],"class_list":["post-22645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-ww2","tag-ships","tag-wreck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5Tf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22646,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22645\/revisions\/22646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}